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Definition of Lopping
1. n. A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings.
Definition of Lopping
1. Verb. (present participle of lop) ¹
2. Noun. The cutting off of branches, etc. ¹
3. Noun. That which is cut off; leavings. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lopping
1. lop [v] - See also: lop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lopping
Literary usage of Lopping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
""lopping THE TALL EARS" THIS prince [Periander] at the beginning of his reign
was of a milder temper than his father; but after he corresponded by means of ..."
2. The Law of Operations Preliminary to Construction in Engineering and ...by John Cassan Wait by John Cassan Wait (1900)
"lopping or Cutting Overhanging Branches.—Although such is the law, it does not
follow that the owner of land is obliged to have it burdened by the ..."
3. Chitty's Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening (1844)
"... for lopping etc. trees, that they overshadowed and damaged defendant's
grounds, (k) 4. REMOVAL OF PRIVATE NUISANCE. After enumerating trespasses ..."
4. Timber: A Comprehensive Study of Wood in All Its Aspects, Commercial and by Paul Charpentier, Joseph Kennell, tr (1902)
"lopping. An interesting portion of arboriculture is that which treats of the care
to be bestowed upon the trees of a forest ..."
5. The Oxford Sausage: Or, Select Poetical Pieces by Thomas Warton (1814)
"lopping NEW COLLEGE LIME TREES. a row of saucy limes, Planted, I ween, in luckless
times, By some ill-favour'd Bursar, Like upstarts vain, grew proud and ..."
6. The Theological and Literary Journal (1861)
"... and to depict their instantaneous destruction, God is exhibited as lopping
the boughs, felling the lofty trees, cutting down the thickets of the forest, ..."
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